Datacenter edition still offers unlimited Hyper-V Virtual Machines (VMs), and Standard edition includes VMs with the base licensing of the host machine, with additional Core licenses needed for VMs over 2.

Some highlights of the changes:

Each physical core in the server needs to be licensed. That means you can skip counting hyper-threaded virtual cores.

Each physical processor needs to be licensed with a minimum of 8 cores. So 4 core and 6 core chips still need 8.

Each physical server is required to be licensed with a minimum of 16 cores. This sets the minimum cost for Server Standard Edition.

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